Originally Posted by
cbn42
I know it's sacrilegious to defend the TSA on here, but OP mentioned 3 things that the TSO in question was doing:
1. asking pax if they had any questions about the screening process
2. asking conversational questions like "are you going to Disneyland?"
3. talking about how his son was just finishing a posting to a USAF base.
Which one of these three is a violation of your rights, and how?
The TSA does plenty of things that legitimately deserve criticism, but sometimes I think that people on FT have an automatic reflex that immediately criticizes anything they do. I could post a message on here saying "Today I saw a TSO chewing gum" and immediately people would claim a violation of their constitutional rights and waste of taxpayer money.
Question 1: legitimate
Question 2 and Comment 3: If these are sneaky BDO-wannabe gambits, they are both time-wasters (no one else behind the pax in line? does the pax have the time to engage in small talk?) Is it a documented requirement that pax engage in small talk with a TSO just because the TSO wants to chat?